- engine-debug-tools/: a debug dump hotkey + dump2png to inspect
decoded critter frames independent of the renderer (see root
README.md's "Debugging" section).
- engine-patches/04,05: fix critter sprite scale and an OpenGL
texture cache collision, found using that tooling.
- mdlp: fix encodeFrames RLE-diffing upscaled frames against a
previous-frame reference the real RSD8 decoder never implements
(verified against Night Dive's original Mac source down to the
68K assembly) - was rendering as scattered static in-game.
- Upscale pipeline: better color quantization (dithering, pure-ramp
exclusion) and per-resource model selection.
Extends the MDL system beyond text overrides: bitmaps/<label>.json
names a model/scale and resource list, and mdlp extracts each
resource's frames, runs them through an ONNX Runtime CPU upscaler
baked into mdlp-image, re-quantizes to the game's palette, and writes
the result back - same build-time pipeline as message overrides.
Adds animgallery, a standalone viewer that renders any data
directory's animated resources as an HTML/GIF gallery with a
checkbox-driven MDL JSON generator, and -only-changed to preview just
what a mod overrides against the base game.
Fixes a real data race in hacked's ChangeNotifier.hashAll() (found via
go build -race causing non-deterministic resource counts), via a new
numbered patch rather than editing the vendored source.
Adds engine-patches/, a general-fixes counterpart to
android/engine-patches/ now staged and applied to the desktop builds
too (previously unpatched): a real GL_UNPACK_ROW_LENGTH stride bug, an
audio error-logging improvement, and two critter-rendering fixes -
mod art was losing to the base game's own re-opened resource files,
and critters rendered at the wrong size/position once that was fixed,
both from how the billboard renderer derives on-screen size and
placement straight from bitmap pixel dimensions.
Updates README.md and AGENTS.md to document engine-patches/.
modding/mods/ holds message edits as plain JSON (type, index, language,
plus only the changed fields - a long body can live in a sibling .txt to
avoid escaping in JSON), so mod authoring is reviewable in git instead of
living only in hacked's GUI. mdlp (modding/src/mdlp/, its own Docker image
mdlp-image/) turns them into the same mod folder/zip hacked's own Save
produces, reusing hacked's ss1/edit, ss1/world and ss1/content/text
packages via a go.mod replace - no GUI/GLFW/GTK needed. `make mods`
builds every mod into dist/mods/<name>/, scoped per-mod so it never
touches hacked's own build output; `make` (no target) now builds both.
Fixes a bug this surfaced: hacked's FileLocation.AbsolutePathFrom
silently writes into the current directory instead of the given output
folder when passed a relative path (the GUI never hits this since its
folder picker is always absolute) - mdlp now resolves its own paths
up front.
res/run-mods.sh/.bat are new companion launchers to run.sh/.bat: they
pass every dist/mods/*/mod folder to the engine as a separate absolute
argument, since ProcessModDirectory() only scans one directory level
deep. Wired into `make dist`/`dist-win` only, not the release archives.
modding/hacked/, its patches, sqweek-dialog/, its patches, and the new
mdlp/ move under modding/src/, separating source from the surrounding
Docker/script scaffolding; all path references updated to match.
NOTICE.txt gains a section for hacked's distributed build, listing hacked
(New BSD), sqweek/dialog (ISC - corrected from a wrong "New BSD" note),
and hacked's other direct Go dependencies.
The built hacked binary segfaults on Linux the moment a native GTK3
dialog (file/folder browse) opens while a GLFW/OpenGL context is live:
sqweek/dialog's Linux backend never calls XInitThreads() before
gtk_init(), and GLFW's own X11 backend installs a process-wide Xlib
error handler that collides with GTK's.
Vendor a pinned copy of github.com/sqweek/dialog (New BSD) into
modding/sqweek-dialog/ so it can be patched like every other vendored
source here: sqweek-dialog-patches/01-xinitthreads.patch adds the
missing XInitThreads() call, and hacked-patches/01-use-patched-dialog.patch
adds a go.mod replace directive pointing hacked's own sqweek/dialog
dependency at that local copy. build-hacked.sh now stages both hacked/
and sqweek-dialog/ into a scratch modding/build/ directory and applies
their patch series before compiling, rather than building hacked/ in
place; .gitignore picks up that new scratch directory.
Also expand modding/README.md: number its existing sections and add a
worked "Example: Editing a message" walkthrough covering Static World
Data, the Messages window's clipboard-only text editing, saving the
Mod Location, and the absolute-path requirement for run.sh's mod-folder
argument.
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